User blog comment:Biggren/The Northern March Original/@comment-3135907-20160811145125

@ Blue @Barty

The rat cut down his stoatess colleague just as Flewdd and Serrano emerged from the woodland into the clearing. At the same time that Feffle and Grimear began to leave it.

The stoat was briefly stopped in his tracks at the surprise appearance of their quarry, then he grinned, nudging Serrano and putting a paw to his lips before drawing steel. The hares hadn't even turned around, given even one backward glance at them.